Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-12-30
THE CITIZEN.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NY Lady Wasp.

There she goes gown Main street.
/ She thinks her most noticeable
characteristic is creating quite a SEN
sation among the sight seers; and the
broad waist of the German woman
excites her liveliest disdain. Miss
Wasp, a fretful, weak and decrepit
creature. is at home this fine after-
noon, being not in good health. And
no wonder about it. l say. There
goes her stylish mother, who, ever
since the days OF her childhood, has
been trying to squeeze herself into
letter Y and letter A. She never
quite arrived at the summit of her
ambition; but the degree of success
that has attended her efforts has been
on the whole rather remarkable, as
glance at her to-day will show. Pro
test on the part of parents. friends
and doctor, and later, on the part OF
her husband, prevailed not on her.
1.-The figure must be formed" +" and ac-
cordiDg to some undiscovered method
of reasoning, it must be formed by
means of the corset. The waist must
be made smaller. But how about
the internal arrangements! The
lungs, the liver and the stomach sure
ly must not have room enough to
work properly in that mere span OF
box-like palisade. Faith, the dear,
delightful, stylish girl did not know
for years she had such things Any
affirmation to that effect was looked
upon as an insult by her innocence
But she discovered this territory,
these interior provinces. The dis
coyery Of new continent was as
sothing beside this revelation. Oae
woe was piled on another, in a most
discouraging manner. l could tell
Just what gains and aches she had,
were | writing for medical journal,
but it is not necessary to go into par
ticulars here. We all know 10
general way, the penalties of this
horrible and sinful practice.
The most discouraging feature OF
the matter was, that ous charming,
our delightful Mrs. Wasp, Miss Yel-
low jacket of former years, referred
all these ailings that rendered her
life miserable, to other causes than
the true one. She had "all the weak
ness that flesh is heir to-" She knew
that man, and woman too, were born
to trouble, as surely az the sparks fly
upwards. She alternated between
state of assumed patience in bearing
the sufferings that "were sent, no
doubt, for some good purpose"-(a
rather covert piece of criticism on the
way things are run in this world)-
and state of iretfulness, and open
rebellion, with expressions Of dissat-
isfaction with the present administra-
ton, in exceedingly bad taste not be-
ing in position to really damage
the Great Executive, she began to
vent her spleen on her family; and
everybody thought that although
Miss Yellowjacket could sting pretty
sharply, Mrs. Wasp, when she sat
down on one, was apt to raise a
swelling. Mrs. Wasp's daughter,
Miss Wasp Of course, is poor crea-
ture, without any form to speak of; at
least it is far too shapeless to require
or allow the services Of the corset.
Poor girl, she has inherited wefk
body and complaining spiri.;and for
this "dispensation" the mother is
ready to credit the Ruler Of the
Universe Now all this sort of talk
is little better than blasphemy. If
there is one thing about women more
certain than another, il is that they
come by their diseases (waose name
is legioD) through transgessions Of
certain common-sense laws Of health,
and that among these trangressions,
one Of the most dangerous and most
fruitful Of evil, is the compression Of
the vital organs by the detested, the
abominsble corsets. Whoever told
womankind that corsets served to i'm
prove the figure? Whoever told them
that their admirers, the men, admired
this their worst enemy, let it be loose
ly or tightly laced? Whoever did 20,
was, | assure you, dear creatures. an
emissary Of the devil, who il a liar.
and the father of it. Any man who
bas u level head, and whose admira-
tion il worth the having, despises the
whole detested business. This mat
ter Of wearing corset is, firstly,
cheat, meant to deceive the cap. head
ed and the perverted in taste; second
ly, as generally worn, it is far from
being an improver 10 any sense Of the
word; and thirdly, as many use IL,
he result is positively ugly. And
above all. the evil physiological ef-
fecis that follow from its use, sue
ceeded necessarily by equal deplor-
able effects on the temper and on the
mind, are the active and efficient
agents in causing the sun to be dark
ened and the moon to be turned into
blood, not only for the ladies them
selves, but for tteir husbands aud
brothers. Thus the woman, who
should be the light and comfort Of
the house, is liable to benomo It's
plague. And what is the root Of all
this evil? Alas for human presump.
tiob! 1t is to be presumed that the
Creator knew what lie was about
when He fashioned Eve from the rib
of Adam. If lie had intended TO
build her in two sections, connected
only by the vertebe. lie would doubt.
less have made the internal economy
to correspond with this idea; but no
doubt for reasons that seemed good
another plan was followed. The
woman Of the present day, however.
knows thing or two. She has self
complacencv by the yard. She can